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Property from an Important Private Collection

Alvar Aalto, An Early "Savoy" Vase

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December 12, 06:50 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

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Property from an Important Private Collection

Alvar Aalto

An Early "Savoy" Vase


circa 1937

model no. 9750, from the "Eskimoerindens Skinnbuxa" series

executed by Karhula, Finland

molded glass

5 ½ in. (14 cm) high

8 ⅛ in. (20.6 cm) maximum diameter

Phillips New York, December 11, 2002, lot 49

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Domus, no. 125, May 1938, p. 36

Jennifer Hawkins Opie, Scandinavia: Ceramics & Glass in the Twentieth Century, London, 1989, p. 23, fig. 189

Eva B. Ottillinger, Alvar Aalto, Möbel: Die Sammlung Kossdorff, Vienna, 2002, p. 74, fig. 76

Thomas Kellein, ed. alvar & aino aalto. design collection bischofberger, exh. cat., Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Zurich, 2005, pp. 213-214